Message-ID: <19990915225715.80758.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [134.134.248.22] From: "Jay Warling" To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Problem accessing absolute physical address -1MB Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 22:57:15 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli, It turns out my main problem was that in the _farpokel and _farpeekl calls I was passing the linear address of the start of the descriptor (DUH!), rather than an offset into the segment referenced by the descriptor. There was also a problem with the descriptor buffer for the _dpmi_set_descriptor call. Thanks for the help. Jay On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >Please always make a point of posting the complete crash traceback and >registers' dump when you report problems that cause programs to crash. >The crash message includes some crucial info that makes our guesswork >much easier. Please run SYMIFY and post the crash message with the >information added by SYMIFY. My apologies for not showing the register dump for the SIGSEGV. I looked into running SYMIFY but I didn't see a core dump to use with it. > >What exactly is ``bizarre'' with this, and what special problems do >you expect? DJGPP gives you a flat 2GB address space, and the aÿ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com